| Name | CVE-2023-46852 |
| Description | In Memcached before 1.6.22, a buffer overflow exists when processing multiget requests in proxy mode, if there are many spaces after the "get" substring. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| memcached (PTS) | buster | 1.5.6-1.1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.5.6-1.1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.6.9+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.6.18-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1.6.23-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1.6.26-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| memcached | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| memcached | source | (unstable) | 1.6.22-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - memcached <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - memcached <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - memcached <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/76a6c363c18cfe7b6a1524ae64202ac9db330767 (1.6.22)